Double Paralympic champion Alexander Yaremchuk On , he said that he had received an offer to change his Russian sports citizenship.
Yaremchuk (T46 class) won gold at the 2024 Games in the 1,500 meters, with a result of 3 minutes 50.24 seconds. He also won in the same class and distance at the 2020 Games.
— There was once such an experience in my life when I was invited to move to another country, just when our national team was suspended. But I did not accept this offer, because I love my country and everything that surrounds me in this country.
– What’s the next step?
— I want to break the world record over a distance of 1500 meters, since I have already won all the titles I wanted to win. “I still have an unclosed gestalt in the form of a world record,” Yaremchuk said in the film from the series “Faces of the Country” on .
The Paris Paralympic Games ended on September 8. Russian Paralympians competed in neutral status, without a flag or national anthem.
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